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    spanish


    1. JURGEN, about 40, a big guy, 6 feet and 250+ pounds, the owner of the cantina, wipes off a table and simultaneously argues in Spanish and German with ROSITA, 30-something, a waitress and his sometimes girlfriend


    2. She says something to Jurgen in Spanish, nods at Dave, giggles


    3. They don't give a dime if I know perfect English and Italian, as well as very good German and Spanish


    4. Berndt immediately switches into Spanish


    5. In the end, they decide that Joris will stay with me while Berndt, as our only Spanish speaker, will go and find the man … and, it is hoped, the boat


    6. ‘Here we are sitting in the sunshine in this very pleasant Spanish town drinking some not at all unpleasant wine


    7. The interchange with the customs takes place in Spanish and goes completely over my head


    8. Oh, and pop in a lamb Madras, pilau rice, a mushroom bhaji, and a couple of bottles of Spanish brandy while you're at it"


    9. She'll wear her hair at shoulder length by the Spanish autumn


    10. A sighting in a Spanish port and a copy of a ship's register, the Valentin, bound for Bideford, some days ago

    11. The Range Rover burns through gasoline in the urban splendour of Roundswell; car dealerships, neon lights and estate houses themed on Spanish villas


    12. He has a daughter, and that burns his soul far more deeply than the cheap Spanish hooch burns in his throat


    13. East Fife rain turns to Spanish sun


    14. If this were the Spanish Inquisition, you would have accused THEM of being Jews apropos of nothing but their ginger hair,”


    15. Also I wonder if you speak Spanish


    16. I have been trying to learn Spanish for years and still only speak and write a little


    17. I can speak Spanish, but just a little


    18. I've learned it from school when I was at the college, because I took 12 years of Spanish subject


    19. Dreadful stories they were--about hanging, and walking the plank, and storms at sea, and the Dry Tortugas, and wild deeds and places on the Spanish Main


    20. Before the discovery of the Spanish West Indies, the most fertile mines in Europe may have afforded as great a rent to their proprietors as the richest mines in Peru do at present

    21. Silver must certainly be cheaper in Spanish America than in Europe ; in the country where it is produced, than in the country to which it is brought, at the expense of a long carriage both by land and by sea, of a freight, and an insurance


    22. The greater part, too, of the Spanish and Portuguese colonies, are altogether new markets


    23. The Spanish armies, though they scarce ever exceeded five hundred men, and frequently did not amount to half that number, found almost everywhere great difficulty in procuring subsistence


    24. The Spanish colonies are under a government in many respects less favourable to agriculture, improvement, and population, than that of the English colonies


    25. Some part is sent annually by the Acapulco ships to Manilla; some part is employed in a contraband trade, which the Spanish colonies carry on with those of other European nations; and some part, no doubt, remains in the country


    26. Though, in one sense of the word, silver always has been, and probably always will be, much cheaper than gold ; yet, in another sense, gold may perhaps, in the present state of the Spanish market, be said te be somewhat cheaper than silver


    27. But, in the present state of the Spanish market, gold is certainly somewhat nearer to this lowest price than silver


    28. In these taxes, too, it has already been observed, consists the whole rent of the greater part of the gold and silver mines of Spanish America; and that upon gold is still worse paid than that upon silver


    29. The price of Spanish gold, therefore, as it affords both less rent and less profit, must, in the Spanish market, be somewhat nearer to the lowest price for which it is possible to bring it thither, than the price of Spanish silver


    30. When all expenses are computed, the whole quantity of the one metal, it would seem, cannot, in the Spanish market, be disposed of so advantageously as the whole quantity of the other

    31. That the silver mines of Spanish America, like all other mines, become gradually more expensive in the working, on account of the greater depths at which it is necessary to carry on the works, and of the greater expense of drawing out the water, and of supplying them with fresh air at those depths, is acknowledged by everybody who has inquired into the state of those mines


    32. to Spanish conquistadores, but they still keep their old


    33. If this sometimes happens even in Spain, it happens almost constantly in Chili, at Buenos Ayres, and in many other parts of Spanish America, where the horned cattle are almost constantly killed merely for the sake of the hide and the tallow


    34. vaulted in Spanish chestnut, with a channel of fresh water


    35. The price of superfine cloth, I have been assured, on the contrary, has, within these five-and-twenty or thirty years, risen somewhat in proportion to its quality, owing, it was said, to a considerable rise in the price of the material, which consists altogether of Spanish wool


    36. She received them as a present from the Spanish ambassador


    37. Mr Locke, Mr Lawe, and Mr Montesquieu, as well as many other writers, seem to have imagined that the increase of the quantity of gold and silver, in consequence of the discovery of the Spanish West Indies, was the real cause of the lowering of the rate of interest through the greater part of Europe


    38. Before the discovery of the Spanish West Indies, ten per cent


    39. The manufactures of Flanders were carried on chiefly with Spanish and English wool


    40. Spanish wool was the material, not of the first woollen manufacture of England, but of the first that was fit for distant sale

    41. England was noted for the manufacture of fine cloths made of Spanish wool, more than a century before any of those which now flourish in the places above mentioned were fit for foreign sale


    42. The civil wars of Flanders, and the Spanish government which succeeded them, chased away the great commerce of Antwerp,


    43. In Europe, for example, it is supposed, without much foundation, perhaps, that during the course of the present and preceding century, they have been constantly, but gradually, sinking in their value, on account of the continual importations from the Spanish West Indies


    44. manufactures, than either Mexico or Peru, even though we should credit, what plainly deserves no credit, the exaggerated accounts of the Spanish writers concerning the ancient state of those empires


    45. It was upon this silly notion, however, that England could not subsist without the Portugal trade, that, towards the end of the late war, France and Spain, without pretending either offence or provocation, required the king of Portugal to exclude all British ships from his ports, and, for the security of this exclusion, to receive into them French or Spanish garrisons


    46. The Spanish colonies, therefore, from the moment of their first establishment, attracted very much the attention of their mother country; while those of the other European nations were for a long time in a great measure neglected


    47. In proportion to the extent of the country which they in some measure possess, the Spanish colonies are considered as less populous and thriving than those of almost any other European nation


    48. The progress even of the Spanish colonies, however, in population and improvement, has certainly been very rapid and very great


    49. Gemel i Carreri, a pretended traveller, it is said, indeed, but who seems everywhere to have written upon extreme good information, represents the city of Mexico as containing a hundred thousand inhabitants ; a number which, in spite of all the exaggerations of the Spanish writers, is


    50. In spite of the cruel destruction of the natives which followed the conquest, these two great empires are probably more populous now than they ever were before; and the people are surely very different; for we must acknowledge, I apprehend, that the Spanish creoles are in many respects superior to the ancient Indians














































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    Synonyms for "spanish"

    spanish spanish people

    "spanish" definitions

    the Romance language spoken in most of Spain and the countries colonized by Spain


    the people of Spain


    of or relating to or characteristic of Spain or the people of Spain